BELL, Charles Webster, a Representative from California;
born in Albany, N.Y., June 11, 1857;
attended the public schools;
moved to California in 1877 and settled in Pasadena, Los Angeles County;
engaged in fruit growing and the real estate business;
county clerk of Los Angeles County 1899-1903;
member of the State senate 1907-1912;
elected as a Progressive Republican to the Sixty-third Congress (March 4, 1913-March 3, 1915);
unsuccessful candidate for reelection in 1914 to the Sixty-fourth Congress;
resumed his former business pursuits in Pasadena, Calif.;
served as secretary of the Pasadena Mercantile Finance Corporation;
died in Pasadena, Calif., April 19, 1927;
interment in Mountain View Cemetery.